A Texan conservative Anglican -- yes, a square peg -- ponders both churchly and worldly things and enjoys his new church.

Friday, June 15, 2012

Obama, a Tyrant in Trouble (and acting like it) UPDATED

Two polls this week
make clear that Obama is in trouble.First was the Rasmussen Poll putting Romney up 3 in Wisconsin.(Obama won Wisconsin easily in 2008 and
led in a March Rasmussen Poll by 11.)Then yesterday came a poll showing a tie . . . in Michigan.And Michigan is hardly a swing state.

Now I was going to
write that one should watch for Obama to act like a desperate totalitarian and
bypass Congress and the Constitution to decree by executive order pandering
measures to win votes. But then I
read this morning that it’s already happening:

The
Obama administration will stop deporting and begin granting work permits to
younger illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children and have since led
law-abiding lives. The election-year initiative addresses a top priority of an
influential Latino electorate that has been vocal in its opposition to
administration deportation policies.

The
policy change, described to The Associated Press by two senior administration
officials, will affect as many as 800,000 immigrants who have lived in fear of
deportation. It also bypasses Congress and partially achieves the goals of the
so-called DREAM Act . . .

Can’t pass the DREAM
Act through Congress, but want to appease the Latino vote? No problem! Ignore Congress and the rule of law, act as if it’s the law
already, and win votes!

Now some aspects of the
DREAM Act are desirable. But we
are still a Constitutional republic.
A President has no business ignoring the law and Constitutional
processes to win votes.

But with Obama in
trouble and with his totalitarian streak (that I’ve warned about again and
again), that is exactly what we can expect from him between now and Election
Day.

MORE: Even Obama agrees
that he cannot do what he just did. From just last year: "I just have to
continue to say this notion that somehow I can just change the laws
unilaterally is just not true. We are doing everything we can administratively.
But the fact of the matter is there are laws on the books that I have to
enforce. And I think there's been a great disservice done to the cause of
getting the DREAM Act passed and getting comprehensive immigration passed by
perpetrating the notion that somehow, by myself, I can go and do these things.
It's just not true."